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......what are some of your favorite examples, and who do you like to play as?

For me, the Bowser levels in Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door will always be legendary. Having him as an actual party member in Super Paper Mario is also fantastic, but the ridiculous factor is slightly less because the game is actually balanced around him as a party member rather than just being an incredible joke level with steaks. I do love getting the gold stars in SPM as Bowser though because then he gets so enormous that this 8-bit monster takes up half the level. 10/10 best playable character.

Playing as Peach is often a treat in games where she's available, too. Particularly enjoy her playable segments in PM64 when she guest-stars on a quiz show, and she was always my favorite in All-Stars.

In the multiplayer games I usually gravitate towards Waluigi or Daisy because they're both terrible.

In other games it's usually Luigi or Peach. You can really cheese certain missions in Super Mario 64 DS with Luigi's spin jumps. And Peach Toadstool is the best party member in Super Mario RPG, bar none.

I totally forgot about spinoffs like Mario Party and Mario Kart. Just made this thread to talk about SPM to be honest.

I love playing as Yoshi whenever I'm allowed to; especially in Mario Party 2 because his little outfits are adorable. I mean the outfits are fun no matter what but they're best when worn by a lovable dinosaur.

I was always a little disappointed that SMRPG didn't allow you to remove Mario from the party. Even if he had to be the one doing the platforming and stuff, would it have killed them to let me run a Geno/Bowser/Toadstool set?

That said, I love playing as Toad in SMB2. He's so fast when holding an object, it's great. And vine jumping is extremely easy with Luigi, which comes in handy for several levels. Honestly, Mario is the least desirable character to play in that game.

getting back to sm64ds that's like the one game with multiple characters where you would ever actually want to play as mario. he has the fastest run speed of the bunch and he's the only one who can wall jump so he's great when you need mobility.

[QUOTE="DarkZero, post: 1638590, member: 34654"]getting back to sm64ds that's like the one game with multiple characters where you would ever actually want to play as mario. he has the fastest run speed of the bunch and he's the only one who can wall jump so he's great when you need mobility.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the fact that the game is originally designed for Mario, so he naturally just feels the best in that space.

Depends on the game. I think I have a different primary character in all of the Mario Kart games, some of them actually being Mario. I think I might be undefeated as DK Jr in the original Mario Tennis.